(Photo by Loren Elliott/Getty Images) Although Blue Origin was - like ... reaching the ancient orb first in this new-millennium Space Race, says Professor Kip Hodges, the founding director of ...

As new missions to the final frontier notched many successes this year, it marked the start of an era where small, commercial space companies can thrive—even getting help from Prada.

Dubbed "NewSpace", an increasing number of entrepreneurs are joining in the race to create cheap, commercialised space travel. Among these are billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard ...

Soviets beat U.S. - first into space MOSCOW, Oct ... of the sphere in its race around the earth. Ohio man the first to spot Sputnik By LARRY OCHS, as told to the United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio ...

Headlines of the 1950s and '60s seemed to indicate that the Soviet Union was light-years ahead of the U.S. throughout much of the space race. But behind the scenes, a very different story was ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

Getty Images Missions by Soviet cosmonauts including ... "We choose to go to the Moon" The space race continued and in 1965 the Soviets guided an unmanned craft to touch down on the Moon.

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